Alan Lester
Impact in
- Anthropology top 1%
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- History top 0.5%
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Papers in
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- Australian History and Society 22
- South African History and Culture 9
- Anthropology 29
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade 9
- Anthropological Studies and Insights 9
- African history and culture studies 5
- Co-authors
- David Lambert (5 shared papers)Fae Dussart (6 shared papers)Rob Skinner (1 shared paper)Zoë Laidlaw (4 shared papers)Tony Binns (2 shared papers)G. Lang Farmer (1 shared paper)Anna Winterbottom (1 shared paper)Vinita Damodaran (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Journal of Historical Geography (5 papers)Journal of Southern African Studies (3 papers)The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (2 papers)New Zealand Geographer (2 papers)Environment and Planning D Society and Space (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesAustralia
In The Last Decade
Alan Lester
72 papers receiving 906 citations
Alan Lester's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 82
- Anthropology 387
- History 316
- Sociology and Political Science 792
- Geography, Planning and Development 92
- Health 93
Countries citing papers authored by Alan Lester
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Lester
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Alan Lester, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 81 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century | 2010 | 217 |
| 2 | 2005 | 117 | |
| 3 | Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 84 |
| 4 | 2002 | 81 | |
| 5 | 2012 | 78 | |
| 6 | 2003 | 69 | |
| 7 | 2004 | 42 | |
| 8 | 2002 | 34 | |
| 9 | 2014 | 32 | |
| 10 | Introduction:Imperial spaces, imperial subjects | 2006 | 25 |
| 11 | 1998 | 25 | |
| 12 | 2008 | 25 | |
| 13 | Indigenous communities and settler colonialism: land holding, loss and survival in an interconnected world | 2015 | 22 |
| 14 | 2003 | 20 | |
| 15 | 2008 | 18 | |
| 16 | 2011 | 16 | |
| 17 | 1998 | 16 | |
| 18 | 2010 | 15 | |
| 19 | 2015 | 14 | |
| 20 | 2014 | 14 |
About Alan Lester
Alan Lester is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics and History, having authored 81 papers that have together received 1.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Australian History and Society (22 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (9 papers), South African History and Culture (9 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers), Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 papers), Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (387 citations), History (316 citations), Sociology and Political Science (792 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (92 citations) and Health (93 citations). Alan Lester has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include David Lambert, Fae Dussart, Rob Skinner, Zoë Laidlaw, Tony Binns, G. Lang Farmer, Anna Winterbottom, Vinita Damodaran, Etienne Nel and Peter Mitchell. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Southern African Studies, The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, New Zealand Geographer and Environment and Planning D Society and Space.
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